2:33pm Friday 19th March 2010
By Lawrence Dunhill
A COMMUTER said he was “appalled” to see the leader of a council park his car on double yellow lines while buying a train ticket.
Company director David Heath, 37, recognised David Shakespeare – the Conservative leader of Buckinghamshire County Council – getting out of his BMW at Beaconsfield train station on a weekday morning in February and snapped the photograph on the right.
Mr Heath said: “Politics in general is in a depressing state and to see that even the people at the top have no respect brings a reaction that is both disheartening and infuriating. There really can be no excuse for this.”
He added: “I travel from home in Beaconsfield to London frequently and the station forecourt is dangerous enough in the rush hour – any increase in risk to the public at any time of day is unacceptable.
“I’m not one for ‘what ifs’’ but there’s clearly a push chair on the zebra crossing.”
Councillor Shakespeare said he only left the car briefly while he bought a train ticket. He added as he arrived at the station the two cars in front of him had pulled into the lay-by and there was nowhere else to park.
He said parking there should be avoided, adding: “It’s certainly something I don’t recommend to anybody.”
He told the Bucks Free Press he had believed the site to be private land.
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